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Why Is He Standing Over Me?

Why is he standing over me?

Nicolas Chamfort, best known for his witty epigrams and aphorisms, wrote: "The nobility say the noble is an intermediary between the king and the people. Yes, like a hunting dog is an intermediary between a hunter and hares".

If we look through history, concepts such as The Divine Right of Kings or The Mandate of Heaven did not exist in all cultures. In those cultures, Magna Carta would be meaningless. But in a culture where the legitimacy of the monarch is claimed to be based upon the will of God, and where the monarch is subject to no earthly authority, Magna Carta was a relevant document.